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Scattered Swirls: Understanding A Fragmented Past Through Embodied Knowledge, Maxine Patronik
Scattered Swirls: Understanding A Fragmented Past Through Embodied Knowledge, Maxine Patronik
Honors Theses
For my Senior Dance Project, which represents the culminating work of the Alonzo King LINES Ballet BFA Program, I created a work of choreography with a chosen cast of five dancers and explored the vast theme of memory. The choreographic process helped me narrow down and identify the specific theme I wanted to explore, namely, the relationship of memory to the physical and moving body. As the piece developed and as I drew more experience from working with my dancers, I became particularly interested in the body as a repository of truth and how the body sustains truthful knowledge over …